One quick read
of this article
on the estimated two million refugees from Iraq* and the other two million
left homeless inside Iraq and one sees the story of the war and the Iraq
that George built.

Bush and Cheney
have more than decimated Iraq. That is, in a country of 26 million people,
Bush and Cheney have killed directly, caused the deaths indirectly, or
caused the evacuation, of over four million people. That is, over 15%
of the population has been cut up, root and branch, from the nation.

Focusing on two
people, a doctor and spouse, CNN tells the story of far too many Iraqis.
Abtan, a doctor, fled to Jordan to avoid certain decapitation. He has
lost ten relatives and four friends to violent death, "including
two doctors murdered at work. His wife has lost three relatives. They
have no plans to return to Iraq anytime soon, but they want better lives
now."

Further, those
fleeing Iraq are, like Abtan, of the professional class consisting of
doctors, lawyers, engineers and professors seeking work elsewhere. In
other words, Iraq is undergoing a literal brain drain, with the intelligentsia
either losing their heads or becoming cells of a national intelligence
hemorrhaging, leaving only the most rabid lunatics and their helpless
victims behind. The country has actually lost its mind.

This is the Iraq
that George built. This is the democracy that the invasion has produced.
This result alone should be enough to impel the US Congress to impeach
Bush and Cheney, try them for treason and war crimes, and take over the
executive office until the next "election." The world needs
to be made safe from them.

But for reasons
that involve both political allegiance of the most despicable sort-the
kind that allows people to keep dying to protect party interests-and political
cowardice of the most egregious kind-Democrats afraid of being called
names-we have nothing but tepid and tumid resolutions
with built-in waivers for Bush to violate them. In other words, we
get nothing but the same carte blanche to continue on the path
of no-return.

How far down to
hell will we allow Bush to dig in Iraq before we remove the shovel from
his hands and

Smack me over the
head when this is over. That's what it will take to convince me that I've
woken up from the nightmare.

Dr.
Rec, The Rec ReportMichael
D. Rectenwald, Ph.D.

*By the way, the
US has admitted only 500 of these estimated 2 million Iraqi refugees.